Silas Gates, of Stow, Mass., and the descendants of his son, Paul Gates, of Ashby, Mass / compiled by Julius Kendall Gates and Samuel Pearly Gates .. . d it,rather than for its intrinsic value. Tradition relates thatthis spoon once belonged to Anna, the wife of DanielGates, of Stow, and the letters engraved upon it werereputed to be the initials of Anna Eveleth Gates, andwere thought to show that the maiden name of was Anna Eveleth. Among the various reasons assigned for this beliefwere an occasional mention by some of the elder mem-bers of the family, of an Eveleth ancestor, which w
Silas Gates, of Stow, Mass., and the descendants of his son, Paul Gates, of Ashby, Mass / compiled by Julius Kendall Gates and Samuel Pearly Gates .. . d it,rather than for its intrinsic value. Tradition relates thatthis spoon once belonged to Anna, the wife of DanielGates, of Stow, and the letters engraved upon it werereputed to be the initials of Anna Eveleth Gates, andwere thought to show that the maiden name of was Anna Eveleth. Among the various reasons assigned for this beliefwere an occasional mention by some of the elder mem-bers of the family, of an Eveleth ancestor, which wassupposed by their younger relatives to refer to Gates ; and it was also claimed that she was asister of the Rev. John Eveleth, one of the early min-isters of the Church in Stow. But a conveyance of property by Joseph Eveleth of Ipswich (father of John), (131) 132 Addenda. shows that his daughters name was Hannah, and thatshe was unmarried in 1719, at which time Daniel Gateshad been married five years or more, but to whom is asyet unknown, save that her Christian name was Anna,*who survived him and was the mother of all his As will be seen from the engraving, the shape andstyle of the handle of this spoon show that it musthave been made at a much later date than the period towhich tradition assigns it. It is evident, therefore, thatits original ownership remains to be discovered, as wellas the line of descent by which it came into the posses-sion of Mr. Julius K. Gates, of Ashby, who now has it. See page lo. A Family Treasure. 133 He inherited it from his aunt, Mrs. Anna W. Whitcomb,but its earlier history has not been definitely authorities say that the letter A placed at the topis quite probably the initial of a family surname, E indi-cating the initial of the husbands Christian name, andG that of his wife, — this being the customary mode inolden times of engraving wedding and other familysilver; but after extensive research, no ances
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